Asymptotic distributions of the maximal depth estimators for regression and multivariate location

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1616-1637

  Bai, Zhi Dong ^a   He, Xuming ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Consistency; Estimator; Median; Multivariate location; Regression depth; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033212388     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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